Less than one week after The Washington Post published a 2005 video in which Donald Trump can be heard making lewd comments about groping women without their consent, more women are coming forward with stories about being sexually harassed by the Republican presidential nominee.

During the second presidential debate on Sunday night, Trump insisted that he had never sexually assaulted women. “This was locker room talk,” he said. But on Wednesday, multiple women came forward with accounts that dispute Trump’s dismissive characterization of his behavior. In a New York Timesstory, two women accuse the billionaire of touching them without consent. One, Jessica Leeds, 74, told the Times that Trump groped her more than three decades ago, when they were seated next to each other in first-class on a commercial flight. “He was like an octopus,” she said, recounting how he grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt. “His hands were everywhere.”

The other woman, Rachel Crooks, said she was a 22-year-old receptionist working for a separate real-estate company located in Trump Tower in 2005 when he kissed her on the mouth immediately after meeting her for the first time. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that,” she told the Times. Both women say they decided to come forward after seeing their alleged harasser, now the G.O.P. nominee for president, declaring on national television that he has never actually done the things he has bragged about doing. When asked for comment by a Times reporter investigating the women’s accounts, Trump flatly denied doing anything to the women and threatened to sue the paper. “You are a disgusting human being,” he added.

In a separate statement after the Times report was published, the Trump campaign called the allegations a “fiction” and a “coordinated character assassination against Mr. Trump.” The campaign has said it will sue the paper.

“To reach back decades in an attempt to smear Mr. Trump trivializes sexual assault, and it sets a new low for where the media is willing to go in its efforts to determine this election,” Trump campaign communications adviser Jason Miller said. “It is absurd to think that one of the most recognizable business leaders on the planet with a strong record of empowering women in his companies would do the things alleged in this story, and for this to only become public decades later in the final month of a campaign for president should say it all.”

Just as the Times story was being published, more woman were coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment by the Republican standard-bearer. The Palm Beach Postreported on Wednesday evening that Mindy McGillivray, 36, was groped by Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. She said she never reported the incident to authorities, but felt driven, like Leeds and Crooks, to come forward after watching her alleged harasser denying similar accusations during the second presidential debate Sunday night. “All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge,” she told the Florida paper. “I turn around and there’s Donald. He sort of looked away quickly. I quickly turned back, facing Ray Charles, and I’m stunned.’’

Earlier Wednesday, Buzzfeed News published the accounts of four 1997 Miss Teen USA contestants who accused Trump of gawking at girls as young as 15 while they were changing backstage. One recalled him saying something like, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.” (A trump campaign spokesman did not respond to Buzzfeed’s requests for comment.) Several hours later, The Guardianreported another such story by a different Miss USA contestant, whom the paper did not name. “Mr Trump just barged right in, didn’t say anything, stood there and stared at us,” she said, describing how he entered a room where she and another contestant were naked. Another 2001 beauty pageant contestant, Tasha Dixon, has also detailed how Trump allegedly came “waltzing in” to a room where fellow contestants were naked or undressing. The stories mimic similar allegations made in June by Miss Washington 2013, Cassandra Searles, who described in a Facebook post how Trump, who owned the Miss Universe family of pageants from 1996 to 2005, “treated us like cattle” and “continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room.” Other former contestants have responded to the post, characterizing Searles’s account as true and “scary,” Yahoo News reported.

Later Wednesday night, People magazine published a first-person account of Trump’s alleged harassment, written by one of its own reporters. Writer Natasha Stoynoff alleges that Trump pushed her up against a wall and started kissing her during an interview at Mar-a-Lago in December 2005, in the middle of a photoshoot with Trump and Melania, his third wife, who was then “very pregnant.” Watching the 2005 video of him boasting about similar behavior (“I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.”), Stoynoff says she felt “violated and muzzled all over again.” A spokesperson for Trump told People, “This never happened. There is no merit or veracity to this fabricated story.”